FRANKFURT, Jan. 13, 1998  Hualon Corporation, Malaysia,
has awarded Zimmer AG, a company of the Lurgi Group, an order
for a polyester plant to be built near Kuala Lumpur. The order
value amounts to DM 150 million. The Frankfurt engineering and
construction company will supply the process technology, engineering
and equipment.

The contract covers two continuous polyester polycondensation
units designed to produce a total of 210,000 tons of polymer
melt per year. Also, downstream and featuring the direct spinning
process, two staple fibre facilities each having an annual capacity
of 52,500 tons, and a filament spinning facility for the production
of 114,500 tons/year of partially oriented yam (POY). Additionally,
the supply includes an extruder spinning installation to produce
45,000 tons of microfilaments annually.

This is the latest of 35 contracts awarded to Zimmer by companies
of the Hualon Group since 1984 for polymer and synthetic fibre
plants: 25 polyester plants (totaling around 1.8 million tons/year
capacity) and 10 polyamide plants (totaling 300,000 tons/year
capacity); their order value together amounted to over DM 780
million.